Waste Into Art

For the second year in succession the Liverpool-based artist collective Red Dot (click on their logo on the left to go to their site) are staging an exhibition at the Liverpool Academy of Arts, but this time with a particular theme - recycling. All of the art work has been created from waste materials and/or found objects.

Red Dot have previously staged an exhibition with a similar theme, during December 2007, but at the much smaller venue at the International Gallery on Slater Street.

They also staged the first-ever Recycling Week, titled 'Recycle Into Art', in Liverpool last September. It comprised a series of workshops at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development in which participants were shown how to create art from waste, as well as a workshop run by Urban Strawberry Lunch at St. Luke's Church ('The bombed out church'), who showed people how to create musical instruments from scrap materials.

Since Red Dot's 'Hearts And Minds' exhibition at the Academy last year they have enlisted a number of new members, have exhibited their work in this show.

Those taking part include Alison Bailey Smith , Leon Jakeman, Christine O'Reily Wilson, Colin Serjent, Jane Fairhurst, Richard Ashworth, Alice Lenkiewicz, Sarah Nicholson, Sue Sharples, Nicole Bartos, Carl Fletcher, Ken Bullock, Louise Waller, Arthur Roberts, Barbara Jones and Wendy Williams.

Concurrent with the exhibition Red Dot are staging four art-related recycling workshops at the FACT Centre. A selection of the art work made by the participants will then be added to the 'Waste Into Art' exhibition.

The Exhibition is open from the 17th March to the 3rd April between 12am and 4pm Monday to Friday.

Below are images of some of the paintings, just click on the image to see them full size in our viewer:-